Political corruption: Readings in comparative analysis
by Heidenheimer Arnold J
Published by : Transaction Books (New Jersey) Physical details: 582p. ISBN:0-87855-6.6-2.
Subject(s):
Sociology
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Administration
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Politics
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What is the problem about corruption, concept of corruption, sociology of corruption, techniques of political graft, definition of corruption, nature of political corruption, black market bureaucracy
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Evolution of public office concepts and rules : Corruption as an historical phenomenon, performance levels and bureaucratic structure, sale of public officers, bureaucratic institutionalization in nineteenth century Europe, patronage and public service- bureaucracy and British tradition
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Behavioral and normative perspectives of incidence of corruption : Moral basis of a background society, patronage in Sicily, village friendship and patronage, crime and mobility among Italian Americans, politics of corruption in an American city, ticket fixing in Massachusetts
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Analysis of administrative corruption : Sociological aspects of corruption in southeast Asia, Sala model and comparative administration, dimensions of corruption in India, corruption as a hindrance to modernization in south Asia
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Contemporary Europe : Administrative corruption in theory and Dutch practice, British method of dealing with political corruption, decline of bureaucratic ethos in federal republic
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US : Corruption - special case of US, spoilsmen and reformers- civil service reform and public morality, municipal corruption- comment on Lincoln Steffens, theory about corruption, Purity Potlatch- conflict of interests and moral escalation
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Africa : Corruption in public services of British colonies and ex colonies in west Africa, nepotism and bribery in west Africa, new states and concept of corruption, Kleptocracy as a system of government in Africa
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Analysis of electoral and legislative corruption : Western Europe : how government won elections under Napoleon, socioeconomic development and incidence of English corrupt campaign practice, nature and decline of corrupt election expenditures in nineteenth century Britain, German attempts at legal definition of parliamentary corruption
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US : Alarming proportion of venal voters in connecticut, purchase of votes in new York city , congressional ethics and conflict of interest issue, group politics and disclosure and disclosure idea
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Developing nations : Bribery in election of Ashanti chiefs, remuneration levels and corruption in French speaking Africa, corruption and self interest in Kampala and Nairobi, peso price of politics in Philippines
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Corruption and modernization : Assessing effects- Modernization and corruption, apologies for political corruption, economic development through bureaucratic corruption, effects of corruption in developing nation, contribution of nepotism, spoils and graft to political development, corruption its causes and effects, bureaucracy v/s kleptocracy, corruptio, meachine politics and political change, corruption and political development
Year: 1978
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